Since so many of you are such excellent painters, I am wondering if any of you are experiencing the same reaction from people who constantly ask you if you teach or offer workshops.
At the live shows I have participated in and from email - almost daily, I am asked that same question over and over. Initially, my answer was no - which was quickly met with looks of disgust as if I had just insulted them by refusing to divulge some well kept secret that would surely improve their lives if they only knew what I was keeping from them.
The truth of the matter is that I would like to teach, but I just don't have the time. I work full time at a software company (12 hours per day), have a family to take care of, have commissions waiting, and like to spend whatever spare time I have sculpting. If I could quit my job and teach, that would be great - but since my husband is unemployed, and has been for some time, that is not an option.
I have decided instead to write a book which I have been diligently working on since April. Now I answer that question with "No, but I am in the process of writing a book which will be available for download soon". I am just going to make it a PDF document (so far almost 200 pages) available from my site
"Portrait Sculpture Simplified" and am debating whether or not to submit it to a publishing company (thoughts on this?).
To make a long story short, even this answer does not satisfy everyone as now I have people wanting me to send just the chapters that they are interested in - in unedited format. They can't wait x amount of months until the whole book is ready.
How do you handle people pressuring you for information?
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